After all the pains and heartaches that we encounter and suffered, we thought that there will never be a happy ending for us. We keep the bad memories into our hearts and minds, trying to remember it when we are starting to find someone, so then we never give ourselves a chance to fall again as we are reminiscing the past.

We are afraid that it will happen again, it will cause us more heartaches, memories just keep on coming like a ghost of our life.

We never give a better thought of that, never knowing that the past and bad memories are the one that can heal our broken heart and shatered dreams. Keep remembering them, but not to get us hurt again, but to make us strong and fight for what is really meant for us.

All has a chance to love and be love, to make us happy and to build our dreams again. All has bad and good memories, but it will be up to us on how memories can help us rebuild our life and future.

Be strong, believe in yourself, never give up, and most of all ”DON’T BE AFRAID TO FALL IN LOVE AGAIN”.

Just like what this song is telling us:

One Last Cry
My shattered dreams and broken heart
Are mending on the shelf
I saw you holding hands, standing close to someone else
Now I sit all alone wishing all my feeling was gone
I gave my best to you, nothing for me to do
But have one last cry
Chorus:
One last cry, before I leave it all behind
I’ve gotta put you outta my mind this time
Stop living a lie
I guess I’m down to my last cry
Cry……
I was here, you were there
Guess we never could agree
While the sun shines on you
I need some love to rain on me
Still I sit all alone, wishing all my feeling was gone
Gotta get over you, nothing for me to do
But have one last cry
Chorus:
One last cry, before I leave it all behind
I’ve gotta put you outta my mind this time
Stop living a lie
I know I gotta be strong
Cause round me life goes on and on and on
And on…..
I’m gonna dry my eyes
Right after I had my
One last cry
Chorus:
One last cry, before I leave it all behind
I’ve gotta put you outta my mind for the very last time
Been living a lie
I guess I’m down
I guess I’m down
I guess I’m down…
To my last cry…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz-NhGanOAE

Easy tips generate energy, banish aches, help you sleep, make your period less hellish… and give you a sexy skip to your step. Not just for ladies but also for guys.

• To get revved up, lie on your back with your legs staight up. Bringing a fresh hit of oxygen to your brain to revive you.

• Maintain a bright white smile by avoiding sodas and iced teas made with citric, malic, and tartaric acids, since these additives erode enamel.

• Coat your lips with gloss that contains an SPF of at least 15. gloss slick sheen acts like a magnifying glass for UV rays, intensifying the damage they can do. 

• Avoid computer-induced eye strain with this exercise. Every few hours, look away from your monitor and slowly roll your eyes up and down. Repeat three times, then roll your eyes three times side to side.

• Sweeten your breath by munching on apples, carrots, or cucumbers. Like a toothbrush, these abrasive foods scrape away foul-smelling bacteria.

• Become more gregarious by placing flowers next to your bed or your desk. Lilies, roses, and other fragrant stems affect brain chemistry and can make you feel out going.

• When staying at a guys place for the first time, gargle with toothpaste or use your finger as a toothbrush rather than brushing with his. Toothbrush bristles can transmit diseases, including HPV, hepatitis A, B, and C, syphilis, and herpes.

• Check your finger nails every month to gain insight into your health. Brittleness can indicate an iron or protien deficiency, yellow nails suggest low circulation, and pale nail beds point to anemia.

• If you’re prone to pimples, fill your plate with salmon, walnuts, edamame, and canola oil, four foods packed with fatty acids that fight inflammation and keep skin glands from becoming overstimulated.

• If you’re too wired to sleep, try a few belly breaths. Place one hand on your stomach, and inhale for six seconds. Hold for three counts, then exhale slowly. Repeat six ti eight times. This simple move slows your heart rate and reduces levels of stress hormones.

• Boost your metabolism by eating almonds. They contain compound that helps you torch calories.

• Keep hair healthy by generally sporting loose styles. Always twisting strands into tight ponytails, braids, or extensions might trigger traction alopecia, an irreversable form of hair loss caused by breakage.

• When you shave, use one razor for your armpits and legs, and another for your bikini area. Doctors are inreasingly seeing staph infections along a woman’s private parts, which may be because germs that live harmlessly in your pits or on your legs get transferred via a razor to your pubes, where they become dangerous and can enter your bloodstream.

• Wine contains a disease-fighting antioxidant called resveratrol, and wines with the highest amount of it are grown in cool, rainy regions, such as muscadine from France and the fruit wines from Baguio, Philippines. Choose one of these and you’ll reap more health benifits than if you sipped wine from warm, drier regions.

• Avoid painful calf cramps by drinking a few extra glasses of water a day. Dehydration is a common cause of the cramping.

• When your feet are hurting after a night in your four-inch stilettos, reduce muscle tension quickly by sitting in a chair and crossing your legs, then writing the alphabet with each foot in the lowercase then uppercase letters.

• Keep the volume on your iPod at about the same noise level as normal conversation. Because the earbuds deliver sound into your ear, the decibel level intensified, potentially damaging your hearing over time.

• Feel happier and calm your stressful day by singing and listening to your favorite tune. Doing so boosts levels of the bonding hormone oxytocin.

• Fit into your skinny jeans by eating potassium-rich foods, such as bananas and avocados. Potassium helps flush out excess fluids from your body.

• Irregular or no-show periods may mean that you need to ease your packed schedule. Working too much and sleeping too little throws off your cycle.

]]> http://myblueheart.org/filipina/healthy-is-sexy.html/feed 0 http://myblueheart.org/filipina/20-little-changes-for-a-healthier-life.html http://myblueheart.org/filipina/20-little-changes-for-a-healthier-life.html#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:00:40 +0000 Blue Rose http://myblueheart.org/?p=1471 It’s hard to make big changes in life. The energy and time commitment is often too great. That’s why so many Americans still struggle with their health. The problem doesn’t know what to do; it’s doing it. So why not take the opposite approach? Forget about such grand, amorphous goals as losing weight or getting in shape. Instead, aim to drink the leftover milk in your cereal bowl each morning to get more vitamins, or hold your fork in your non-dominant hand to slow your eating, or “forget” your glasses the next time you’re at the gym so you won’t get distracted. Little tips like these can make a big difference over time.

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Beauty is innate to women – all women are born with it. Each possesses a unique grace and confidence, which ultimately defines her beauty. Whatever shape or size, a woman’s body has curves that make a sensual silhouette and delicate features, which seem like intricate details of a work of art. Sadly, some woman can’t see beyond their flaws that they cover themselves up as much as they can; not knowing that being beautiful begins with loving and appreciating one’s own body.

Beauty is a matter of respect – being beautiful is not a question of whether you’re pretty or plain, young or old, thin or not thin – simply put; it’s not what you look; it’s how you project yourself. A good appearance shows that you respect yourself. When you take time to relax, take care of your skin, fix your hair and dress up. People see that, and they pay respect you, too.

Beauty reflects a sound mind and body – having balanced lifestyle shows in the way you see and deal with the things around you. A clear head makes you focused and keeps you from doing sloppy job, while a relaxed and good mood perks up your physique and helps you relate with others better. When you’re at peace with yourself, whatever the circumstances – wet weather, traffic jam, or gossipmongers – can’t ruin your day.

Feeling beautiful comes from within – when you feel and accept that you are beautiful, you don’t need to be conscious of people throwing second glances at you for assurance. Feeling beautiful inside will most definitely reflect on the outside that others are able to see. Surfacing your inner beauty gives you the ability to hold your head up with confidence and face the world upfront.

Simple tips in preserving beauty

Small simple habits count a lot to revealing your beauty.

• Drink plenty of water – apart from hydrating; water purifies the body by removing toxins and waste.
• Catch up on at least eight hours of beauty sleep – your body needs as much time to recharge and rejuvenate itself after the day’s activities.
• Exercise regularly – you don’t need to hit the gym everyday. Taking the stairs, cleaning your pad, or grooving to some music makes a world of difference.
• Put a smile in your face – it accentuates your face, brightens a gloomy day and gives off positive vibes!
• Indulge in your favorite past time – a relaxing bubble bath, reading a good book, or soothing music make you feel wonderful!

Source: Cosmo

Yes, we all have numerous plans set by days, weeks, months or even years. Even others could be in short or long term plans. In my case, after I finished my BS degree here in the Philippines, the question

I have in my mind is, Where do I go from here? What will happen to my life if I choose to be with this or that? What happens if I take this step or the other way around? There are too many questions that we seek for answers. There are many roads that we need to take in life, but others may be twisted while some are straight as a stick. With this sort-of-confusion ringing in my head, whether to wait or go ahead of God’s plan, I found out that we just need to imbibe in our own minds and hearts these concepts.

Remember, life is an even keel. All of us are perfectly created by God. Our eyes, ears, hands, feet and other body parts are placed in their perfect spots. The number of senses and even the intricacy of our entire human body system have its own raison d’être. I remember the explanation of my teacher about the reason why humans have one pair of ears and only one mouth. He emphasized that we need to have this number of senses for a person needs to listen twice as much as he speaks. So better not pray to have two mouths and one ear because time will come gossips and lies will proliferate not just once but twice. Just wait because life is like a balanced weighing scale. We are the only ones outweighing it. Let’s just keep this equilibrium in state whatever happens.

Don’t run ahead of God’s plan. Yes, it’s normal that we sometimes run ahead of time. In this fast paced world of ours, feeble people are well disregarded. We beat deadlines and plan out things in advance. Human as we are, we always do these stuffs. We even put a schedule on the simplest things we do daily. You bathe, eat, and prepare things as fast as you can even to the extent of forgetting that you haven’t worn your underpants. But wait guys! Have we tried halting and pausing for a while and contemplate on the significant things that we did? Are all these things and plans we have are in accordance to our God’s plan? Sometimes, I seek deep silence for a while after being busy with so many things. Sometimes, I reflect whether I’m not losing out of my plans as well as His plans for me.

Then, answers just come along the way barely discernible.

Live life to the fullest. We can never turn back time so let’s make it possible to really live life to the fullest. We should keep our loved ones on our side and value the people around us. Let’s not be always in a hurry coz we tend to forget the more significant ones. Sometimes, it is us who creates not just a gap but a chasm between relationships with other people who are so important within our own lives.

Waiting on what lies ahead is so tedious but we should not forget that every second offers tranquility and peace of mind, every thing that happens reminds us to just be patient because there is a greater glory ahead of us and it pays to wait since He knows we are waiting. He sympathizes, for He himself had a very long suffering and patience towards His people. Human as we are, we tend to disregard this reason, but it is on the latter part when we come to realize the importance of this concept, “waiting”.

Life is great! Because after I occupied my mind with much life’s worries, destiny offered me blessings worth to be shared and new people meant to be loved. Sooner, my mother will give birth to the third child of our family, and this goes to show that I’ll be having a new person meant to be kept and loved.

With regards to my career, I was tasked to do something I really loved to. This is something that is within my inclination. With this, I get to deal and listen to some ordinary people sharing their simple yet fascinating stories in life.

Indeed, sometimes all of us just need to wait. For I thought back and think that life is an even keel and everything is on God’s control especially if we get to live our life to the fullest.

Such a dreadful event and sight. Just looking at the picture, makes me tearyeyed. What if we are in this situation?

Many of us believe that love is forever, that love never dies, only to be disillusioned in the end when we find our hearts longing. We mistakenly have looked at love as a need to be fulfilled. But love is only a gift given to us. We should not hold it in our hearts for we way never find the strength to let it go when it decides to leave. We should only embrace its warmth and glow while it last and then freely open our arms when its time to say goodbye.

When we fall in love with someone, we don’t want that feeling to end for it is everything we are, everything that we wanted to be. We pray that love will stay and grow in our hearts. But, if it doesn’t, then we should never let our lives be taken by it, for life should not end where heartaches begin.

There is always a reason why we have to move on. When we have to say goodbye to the feelings we wanted to stay forever, let us not wave our hearts with heavy feelings. For love have to set its wings free and find the place where it belongs. We may have lost it but then again, when we close our eyes and listen to the echoes of our hearts, we will hear that feelings resounding silently forever.

Then we’ll know that it has never left us, for the good that we have become because of love will always stay. It will always be there reminding us that we should be thankful and happy, not because we have lost love, but because, for once in our lives, that feelings lived in our hearts and made us happy.

Attaining our hearts’ desires to be happy is not an easy thing that can be obtained in just one blink of an eye. We are forced to take a stride but the roads are bumpy and at times, every step could be painful. These circumstances lead us into feeling the opposite – sadness, frustrations, annoyance, anxieties, all sorts of negative feelings.

Eventually, many of us tend to forget that true happiness and contentment is just around the corner. It is just a matter of state of mind but one has to make the decision to recognize it. No matter how chaotic things may seem to us, at home, at work, or with people around, if we are able to develop a positive outlook, happiness is just a way to go.

Just recently, I realized that seeing a very big lizard crawling at the gate of the zoo after his smooth escape or taking a candid photo of a friend can brighten up my day. Just the thought of silly things, reminiscing memorable memories while the traffic caught the bus on your way to work, rewarding yourself for a good daydream, humming a lullaby, these silly things can actually create a smiley mark in your heart. There is something that we can do to make a simple stuff special, and that is to give it a meaning.

Alright, so much of the superficial idea. Seriously, the best way to accept misfortunes, problems, and the like which are barriers of happiness is to look at the positive side of things. I once applied for a job and was very determined to start my career path on that company. When it was my turn to be interviewed, all of a sudden I started to share about my plans of taking a masters degree, working in a developing country, everything that came out veer away with the kind of job I was applying. I never got the job but in my thoughts I knew that I can have something better. Very soon after the incidence, I land in a job abroad.

If I only let myself mourn over the loose, I would have lost my self confidence and suffer from the agony of self pity. On the contrary, I chose to accept things with gladness and looking at the brighter side allowed me to fully enjoy life happily. We may have different stories but the idea is just the same I think.

Now, I don’t need to burn my eyebrows to the idea of achieving great things to find happiness. I can be happy by just walking in a park, getting a good night sleep, eating my favorite cookies and cream or reading a horoscope everyday. These are just simple things that we sometimes fail to enjoy and appreciate because we never thought that true happiness that’s deep from within our hearts is just around. It just takes a positive attitude coupled with simplicity in our way of life and appreciation of the beauty and meaning around us that we can reach the zenith of bliss.

Don’t Quit

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you’re trudging seems uphill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high,

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

 When care is pressing you down a bit -

Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.

Life is queer with its twist and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a fellow turns about

When he might have won, had he stuck it out.

Don’t give up though the pace seems slow -

You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than,

It seems to a faint and faltering man;

Often the struggler has given up

When he might have captured the victor’s cup;

And he learned too late when the night came down,

How close he was to the golden dawn.

Success is a failure turned inside out -

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near but seems afar;

So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit, -

Its when things seems worst that you mustn’t quit.

Remember this military secrecy always – “Quiter never Wins, Winner never Quit.”

The Dance of Life

There were two hearts who meet in the dance. That moment was magical. There was a sweet song playing, there was harmony and soon, love in the air. They feel in-love and they started building castles in their dreams and promised forever with all certainty.

 But, somewhere in the midst of the fun, they got lost in the dance, something went wrong but they can never do anything. They were just drifting away, their fortress falling apart. There are so many questions, but no one had an answer.

Then the music stopped and then there was silence.

When we truly love someone, we give our best and let that person see the pureness of our intention. But sometimes that person makes us cry and hurts us for the wrong reason. That someone must have loved us but he has not loved us enough to make him stand for what he truly felt.

Now we are faced with seemingly impossible tasks of forgetting. We have burdened ourselves long enough but we still can’t get out of his emotional trap. Let us remember that the more we try to forget someone we love the more painful letting go will become.

Sometimes we never had to take that person out of our hearts at all, for he will always be there no matter how hard we try to drive him away. It isn’t his presence that makes this difficult. It is our stubbornness to accept our destiny that aligns forgetting next to impossible. We keep a cold face but deep in our hearts, there is still that lingering hope reconciliation. Somehow we still believe that we can rekindle small embers and relight the fire that once burned in our hearts. These thoughts give us hope but it also breeds the seeds of loneliness and despair.

The only way to forget is to accept and the only way to move on is to look ahead and let the footprints of the past be blown by the wind of time. Only then can our hearts find a partner in the dance of life and hopefully never get lost again.